09-10 analogy

I've put in some serious time in the OBX, although not recently. Part of the allure was that it was very pet-friendly and we had our two beloved beagles. Before our daughter was born, my wife and I would go there over Xmas occasionally (we saw the Millennium in with a bottle of Dom Perigon -- which someone had given us -- on top of Jockey's Ridge) and experienced a couple of coastal storms, which were wild even though they were wet. I can (or maybe can't) imagine what one would be like that was all snow. Can't get down there, but wish I could.

Not quite relentless puking pingers, but right next door, since early this morning. I don't remember the rates from Valentine's Day 07, but I doubt they exceeded -- or matched -- what I've been getting this morning.

Pounding pingers. Sounds like an atonal xylophone.

Yeah, the (former) Uptown. Even that rings a snow bell. My wife and I, back in 2002, went there on Xmas Eve (or Day?) to see one of the LOTR trilogy, I forget which one, with a little bit of snow that was either falling or had fallen. So that's three obscure data points. It's a tiny bell with the ringer covered in gauze tape. But I do know it was the Uptown. Pretty heavy in up nw, but I'm not really invested in the storm for some reason. Pre-occupied, maybe, or the fact that we've all this bitter cold, and we're going to get a Burning Man of sleet. Which isn't that bad from the point of view of winter histography, but is a bit of a disappointment because, as others have said, I feel we're wasting a golden opportunity, which don't come around too often around here, for a quasi-HECSnowstorm.

Love it when the darkest green on the radar is parked directly overhead. I wasn't expecting much out of this. As usual, I was wrong.

Some pretty large flakes floating down in up nw

Baking soda more or less covering the ground

Yeah it's very ominous-looking to the NW.

Polysyllabic thunder now. Loud, too.

I don't think Ben Franklin would have survived this storm.

Some pretty heavy artillery now.

Just got knocked off my Internet pedestal. Like the good old days.

Some blinding rain with this one.

Another electrical show incoming, it seems. Unless it dies out overhead. But MBY has been pretty lucky in that regard this season. Yeah, this humidity can oppress, but if it leads to a storm ... well, it beats fog or nonconvective wind.

Just rocking here in upper nw, although not much wind.